N.Y. Civil Service Law § 57: Continuous recruitment for certain positions

§ 57. Continuous recruitment for certain positions. Notwithstanding

any other provisions of this chapter or any other law, the civil service

department or a municipal commission may establish a continuing eligible

list for any class of positions for which it finds such lists

appropriate. The civil service department may only establish continuing

eligible lists for any class of positions filled through open

competitive examination. Names of eligibles shall be inserted in such

list from time to time as applicants are tested and found qualified in

examinations held at such intervals as may be prescribed by the civil

service department or municipal commission having jurisdiction. Such

successive examinations shall, so far as practicable, be constructed and

rated so as to be equivalent tests of the merit and fitness of

candidates. The name of any candidate who passes any such examination

and who is otherwise qualified shall be placed on the continuing

eligible list in the rank corresponding to his or her final rating on

such examination. The period of eligibility of successful candidates for

certification and appointment from such continuing eligible list, as a

result of any such examination, shall be fixed by the civil service

department or municipal commission but, except as a list may reach an

announced terminal date, such period shall not be less than one year;

nor shall such period of eligibility exceed four years. Subject to such

conditions and limitations as the civil service department or municipal

commission may prescribe, a candidate may take more than one such

examination; provided, however, that no such candidate shall be

certified simultaneously with more than one rank on the continuing

eligible list. With respect to any candidate who applies for and is

granted additional credit in any such examination as a disabled or

non-disabled veteran, and for the limited purpose of granting such

additional credit, the eligible list shall be deemed to be established

on the date on which his or her name is added thereto.